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oh yeah, noon is the perfect start time. then you can put in 5 hours (which is pretty well my limit of sitting really nicely) and go home, eat something and just sleep!

Hahaha, I didn't realise "Les Elephants" was a popular Dali tattoo. I have them on my back, I had just turned 18 and they were my first tattoos. I didn't really know very much about tattoos at the time, but I wanted something from my favourite painter.
Would I get something different now? Sure, but do I regret them? Not in the slightest. I think it's pretty easy to rag on people for their design ideas, but as long as it's done well, who gives a shit if they're walking around with a popular owl, or a famous painting? I'm sure some on my tattoos wouldn't appeal to a lot of people, but that's why I am wearing them; because I like them!
I used to work at a tattoo shop as a receptionist, and the artists there would definitely suggest improvements on weird concepts, or poor placements, but the biggest thing was they would respect that some people's ideas are definitely subjectively "cool", so just make sure it's executed well and there you go.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Hey all, I've been MIA due to school, but i just got my other thigh tattooed so I thought I would post it.
Done by Stace Forand at Steveston tattoo (just outside of vancouver, Canada) 1 session, 5.5 hours.
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Not sure why it posted sideways, but I'm on my phone and cannot be bothered to figure out how to flip it. Sorry.

Best of luck for your kiki! She is beautiful and would definitely make a beautiful monmon cat :)
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This is Hugues (pronounced oog). We mostly call her oogie, she's a 4 year old Frenchie and the first dog for myself, as well as my husband.
She is rad, except for her breath which always smells like a bag of rotting anuses. Thankfully her cute face makes up for it. I'm sure someday I'll get a tattoo of her, I just don't know what.

I started out with stuff on my back, telling myself it was all I would ever want. Haha then I started worked the desk as a shop so that went out the window. I got a snake and a rat on my calf in 2005,and I love it as it's the pattern on my ball python(who died a few years later). So it's meaningful for me, but it means I cannot sleeve my leg. I decided that sleeving only one leg with a cohesive design is not for me.
So my current tattoo plans are to cover my legs as much as possible without making it look like I'm trying to tie a bunch of random tattoos together into sleeves. I started with a big thigh piece and will get a complimentary one on the other side when I have enough $ to do it. I love that this idea leaves me with the option of getting some smaller pieces as filler as well.
I walked around with one 3/4 sleeve for years before getting the other side done in 2010/2011.i also have zero plans to tattoo my chest as it's not a look for me, and since I would like kids in a couple years I'm leaving torso real estate out of the picture for the time being. I want to get as much of my legs done before kids so it's go time! I'm trying to load up the piggybank when I can!

@Graeme HI DEF COUPONS
obviously worth it.
I usually tell people I spend less than 100$ on hair and makeup per year (respectively). Also, I work hard and make pretty good money so whatever!

I was in my last year of high school and really wanted a tattoo, I went to a shop and made an appointment for after my 18th birthday. I even got birthday money to go towards my tattoo. I was (is) very much into art, and particularly surrealism. So I got the elephants from "Les Elephants" by Salvador Dali as I had a large print on my wall for years and it's my favourite painting of his. It cracks me up as apparently it's a (relatively) popular tattoo, but I don't care. I still like it, and I especially like how it's framed by my sleeves. It was done by Scott Veldhoen at Eternal Image Tattoo in Calgary (Canada).
First photo is after I got them done in 2003 (I was doing hair modelling for a hairdresser pal hence the cheesy photo)
Second photo is at my wedding in 2011

I finally bought the Charnos Armery tights for covering my arms at work with short sleeved shirts. I'm pretty psyched about how they fit. The other type of arm sleeves I tried (I think it was tat2x sleeves) didn't work for me, they would fall down and bunch up at the top. These sleeves are great because it goes around your back, all one piece so it can't slip down. It makes it possible for me to wear this short sleeve shirt to work without having to put another shirt on underneath or cardigan on top. The sleeves don't quite come all the way to my wrists, good thing my tattoos don't either... Here's a before & after:
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Sorry for the delay - the Saniderm roll I got is 10 inches wide, which managed to totally cover my thigh tattoo. I just liked that I didn't have to piece it together over a larger area, since I'm already pretty cack-handed at applying it, but I don't think it matters that much!

"Tattoos are not an addiction; they are a collection. A tattoo collector is just like a conventional art collector who buys a painting, hangs it on the wall, and then moves on to acquire the next, unique piece. Tattoo collecting is a spiritual pursuit, while addiction is a physiological need. Addicts repeatedly take the same drug over and over without limit. A tattoo collection has variety, and it has an end. Once you collect the whole set, you're done."
-Horiyoshi III
Side note: I also have a Hello Kitty. It was done by my fiancée, is about an inch and a half wide, and took her about an hour. It's just lines, aside from color in the bow and nose. She was really trying.

I haven't seen a thread that focuses on gender-specific advice, information-sharing and support for the wonderful ladies around here. Little gems are randomly sprinkled here-and-there within other threads. I thought it would be a nice idea to collect that type of stuff in one place. Questions like, "what do you do about wearing a bra after getting a tattoo?" and "does it really hurt more to get a tattoo the week before and during your period?" And the empowering stuff like the wonderful thread about using tattoos to feel better about your body - especially the delightful discussion of beautifying the horrendous "batwings."
In addition to starting new topics here, when we find relevant nuggets of info elsewhere (I'm kicking myself for not making bookmarks of them), we can add those links here so we don't have to repeat everything or we can refer back to existing stuff.
About responding to existing content: When you find good stuff elsewhere, if it's part of a well-encapsulated or dedicated thread, it would be best to reply over in that thread so content is together (and put a link here if there isn't one already). If the good stuff you find is randomly spread through a larger or unrelated thread, then include the link to the first post where the good stuff starts, and respond here so your new info doesn't get lost over in an unrelated thread.
The boys are welcome, too, you know, because anything related to boobs and bras and the lack of bras surely has universal appeal, etc.
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So I'll start with the period question - does it really hurt more the week of and during your period? Have you dealt with it in any special way...rather than praying to the menopause gods or demanding a hysterectomy just to get more tattoos? :D
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Here's the start of a thread about bras and tattoos in the bra area: http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/tattoo-after-care/32-best-post-tattoo-care-page10.html#post51734

Maaaate. I've had a very lucky day. Jumped on the Harley this morning risking life & limb to crunch it across the other side of town in crazy peek traffic to look at this Tiger.
Apart from nearly getting T Boned from an impatient bastard running a red, I made it.
Jumped off the Dyna, took a deep breath in, rolled a smoke and took 3 minutes to collect my thoughts.
The bike was inside, and as soon as I seen her, I was in love.
I gently ran my fingers across the guards & tank..lay on the ground & had a little look at her under carriage, ran my hands across her seat..straddled her, and put the kick stand up.
I turned her on, & kicked her into life, 1st kick...and as that single carb model sat purring like a kitten not missing a beat...I didn't even need to take her around the block.
I kicked her down to first, then turned her off. Old mate just starred at me and I starred right back with either of us saying a word for a minute. Then all of a sudden, we both flickered a smile & I just nodded my head.
I turned to the bike and thought for a minute, then turned back to old mate & offered him a price $1000 under what he was asking. He said yes, I asked with a new battery, tyres & 12 months rego. He said...battery & tyres yes, you sort the rego. I leant across & as a sign of good will handed over a thousand deposit & the deal was done.
A 1978 Triumph Tiger with 4600 miles on her. A 35 year old brand new bike. Triumph produced 5 Bonnevilles to 1 Tiger hence why everyone seeks a Bonny. But this little 750 Tiger is a rare treasure.
What an awesome day.
The Mrs on the other hand wasn't so impressed.

ok, I wasn't really gonna out it on the interwebs but me and my so kinda recently got engaged and shit...now i need a captain of a ship to wed us...

My wife and I are celebrating 16 years of marriage having been told by everyone we were doomed from the start since we were young, foolhardy and poor, I've had some really good single malt scotch lately (Talisker Storm and Ardbeg Uigeadail), my frustrating bike (66 Triumph) is about to be back in proper action soon and I've lost 60 lbs.